Three photographs and one document on page. Document was written by George Puryear and is a chronology of his military service from the date he volunteered until he joined the 95th Aero Squadron. Top left: Nieuport 28 fighter bearing the insignia...

This is a post Civil War photograph of R.D. Smith, a Confederate veteran from Lincoln County, Tennessee, with a barefoot young boy mounted on a white mule. Written on the back is "Your Great Grandpa Smith & Uncle Roy Green. Uncle Roy is about six...

The letter describes life in the field during the Civil War. Odell notes that rations are limited, he has the best mule in the regiment, his fellow soldiers are getting tired of the war, and the Yankees have commenced their march for Charleston....

Sgt. Charles Ward, Co. E. 60th Ind. Inf. Regt., USA, took part in the siege of Vicksburg and brought back this newspaper, dated two days before the town's surrender. By that time, the residents were subsisting on mule meat and using wallpaper to...

Postwar document concerns a re-branded mule--Confederates apparently had branded a flat stamp over the "US" brand after the animal was captured by Confederate cavalry under Col. Dibrell or Williams, part of Forrest's command

Poster advertising the sale of the property of the late Woodruff Parks, scheduled for August 13, 1870. Among the items sold were cows, hogs, sheep, wagons and farm implements and a mule. The administrator of the estate was Joel Parks.

List of quartermaster's stores received by Quartermaster to Captain J. P. Baltzell, Provost Marshall at Augusta, Georgia. List includes two horses, one mule, three saddles, and three bridles taken from R. N. H. Mazer of Company D, 3rd South...

Letter from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband, Samuel R. Latta, dated August 19, 1861. Although she has hoped that Samuel Latta's unit would be ordered into retreat in Tennessee, they have instead been ordered to New Madrid, Missouri.

Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife Mary in Maury County, Tennessee. He writes about his plans to send her $15,000 in U.S. Treasury notes to invest in real estate to curb currency depreciation and insure...

Handwritten entry for the date represents the Civil War diary of Rachel Carter Craighead. It addresses the news of Confederate and Federal losses at the Battle of Pittsburg Landing (or the Battle of Shiloh), the Confederate generals killed or...

Excerpts from a diary, 1834-1865, and memoir of early life, written by Jesse Cox (1793-1879), a Primitive Baptist minister and resident of Williamson County, Tennessee. He describes the hardships of life as an itinerant preacher, some religious...

Comical drawing in which a soldier with rifle on his shoulder marches off to World War I down a dirt road and leaves in the background mother, father, sweetheart, a dog, and a mule sticking its head out of a barn. American flags are being waved by...